Ex-Housewife Nicolette: I would have left sooner

Ex-Housewife Nicolette: I would have left sooner
Ex-Housewife Nicolette: I would have left sooner (Image credit: © 2006 American Broadcasting Com)

Nicollette Sheridan isn't shedding any tears over her departure from Desperate Housewives. "When the show started it was such a different beast," she told the new issue of TV Guide magazine. "It was exciting and dangerous and funny and edgy and bizarre. It started feeling a little complacent, and that was very frustrating." The actress, who has already left the show after filming her last episode as man eater Edie Britt, told the mag she would have departed sooner, but was 'contractually bound, so there was no way out on your own terms'. Nicollette also had words to say about Housewives creator Marc Cherry, who never added her to Desperate Housewives' opening credits. "I think whoever Edie represented in Marc's life was somebody he didn't like," she said. "And he had a very difficult time distinguishing between fact and fiction. When you have a jewel, why not polish it and put it out there for all to see?" But Marc insisted there were no more Edie stories left to tell. "Edie's already slept with most of the guys on the street and has caused about as many problems as she could," he said. Nicollette's last episode airs in the UK on Wednesday April 22 at 10pm on Channel 4. Get exclusive access to your favourite stars. Subscribe to TV Times magazine

Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 

An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.